what is programming?

[zeeshan_2011]

tell me your opinion

[NovaAesa]

It is the activity of writing, debugging, and maintaining programming language source code.

[nitstorm]

it's magic :D

[nmccrina]

1 part God and 42 parts frustrated human being.

[c0nfusedami]

creating a bridge between the person and the computer

[lisati]

Organizing your thoughts on how to do something in a way that the computer use.

[myrtle1908]

Yelling at business analysts and marketing departments for promising the impossible.

[raydeen]

Convincing a computer to do something it normally wouldn't do.

[nvteighen]

Writing a process in a formal-logical language such that a computer is able to simulate it for you.

[era86]

it's magic :D

this++

[hyperAura]

creating something nice and useful

[OgreProgrammer]

Applying logic to bridge the strengths of circuitry with human needs.

[azagaros]

Programming is the art of taking an idea and transforming into "Magic" on a computer. Take it from the experience of making eyes light up with a custom program and it does what the customer wants with little effort.

[Tikkyca]

Programing is making a program,game,any application using codes,and different coding langauges,which allow you to make an application,however it is not easy to make a program it takes a lot of time to learn something about programing.

[MindSz]

Is to be able to grab a real-world idea and organize it in a set of commands so the machine can understand it.

[ian dobson]

About $75 an hour.

[lisati]

Is to be able to grab a real-world idea and organize it in a set of commands so the machine can understand it.

This ^^

[tooatw]

i think programming is telling the computer what you want it to do

[Rainulf]

Programming is art =)

[Martje_001]

Breaking down something very simple into thousands of little instructions, making it not simple at all.

[KdotJ]

Programming is stayin up till the early hours of the morning, seeing the sun rise, still trying to work out why it won't work lol

[Npl]

Expressing tasks you could explain to average humans in a couple of sentences with thousands of words so a complete moron can follow it.

The most boring part of Software developing.

[CptPicard]

Expressing tasks you could explain to average humans in a couple of sentences with thousands of words so a complete moron can follow it.

That's what the compiler is supposed to do. Once you get your description Turing-complete, it's all good, at least for most parts.

[s3a]

About $75 an hour.

Is that a realistic comment?

[lisati]

That's what the compiler is supposed to do. Once you get your description Turing-complete, it's all good, at least for most parts.

:) A nice summary of the role of the compiler.

[heikaman]

It's the process of converting caffeine into code while loosing hair, teeth, sight and sometimes blood :D

[ibuclaw]

Programming is spending 3 months developing an ORDBMS engine in C++, then dumping it off at the last moment and spend a weekend rewriting - and completing it in Perl.

[nvteighen]

Programming is spending 3 months developing an ORDBMS engine in C++, then dumping it off at the last moment and spend a weekend rewriting - and completing it in Perl.

:lolflag:

Or starting a project in MIT/GNU Scheme, migrate it to PLT Scheme and then ask yourself "Why haven't I chosen to use Common Lisp?" :p